Opinion:Should GOP Filibuster Obama?

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... I'll think we should allow threatened ... to go forth for the C I a director she up ... a goal to be confirmed to sector defense until the White House ... gives us an accounting get depressed than ever pick up the phone ... and call anyone in the Libyan government help these folks what did the president did and what do you plan to do that they don't give you an answer you gotta put a hold on the spot on MNA yes yes ... yes um inasmuch colleagues just like the day with John Bolton ... Joe Biden said that no confirmation without information ... no confirmation without information ... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel no confirmation without information ... and that was Lindsey Graham on face the nation ... for poets in the now adherence to Opinion Journal ... editorial page editor Paul GBO here to discuss the politics of these confirmation hearings ... all this the grand have a point that it's the center's duty to vet the president's nominees regardless of party ... oh sure no question that's ... because of the Constitution should be ... ok but in person chock a goal it defense when it very interesting editorial Davidson basically ... Democrats are doing that they're plain pack politics ... by Senator ... Graham raised John Bolton's nomination hearing what a so change ... in the last four years to to solicit this kind of behavior as an in line ... with ... Democrats on December when House and Democratic senators ... um ... they have private misgivings about to ... about Chuck cable for example there's no question about it ... but did at the beginning of a second term it would take a brave Democrat I think on to to ... break with the pack unfortunately ... hand and then go against Tokyo notwithstanding their private ... misgivings ... aam but ... he likes to dwell Prabha we need more for me she was really a case to be made to be Chuck Chuck cable did not put on a great performances nomination hearings that is unfit for office well um if it is is is not quite the word I would use is he is he on qualified for defense secretary I think that's fair ... and I think his his performance showed that he's unfamiliar with most of the major issues he didn't serve our armed services remember when use of this entity was on Foreign Relations ... he's not familiar with a lot of the big programs and what the choices actually will be very difficult budget choices he said as much ... there's an awful lot I have to familiarize myself with anyone would because apparently the issues and that's our hands ... but he is really going in there as a rookie ... no question about it so I think he's not qualified ... and I think he also has some real ... issues about his independent spiel I think the deal was cut with him ... with this among the reasons the president wants it was ... we want you to come in and basically take orders from the Whitecaps ... can you live with that ... he said yes ... basically ... and I think you saw him validate that when Joe Manchin from West Virginia STM ... you'll be of a policy making that away you ... he said no I will have a policy making what are you kidding me ... that's what the defense secretary is he suppose to give policy advice to the White House ... not exactly Lincoln's team ... of rivals but from the Republican perspective is there an element of pushback year because present Obama himself ... didn't end run around the Senate ... when his Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... absentee ... and the nomination see NLRB ... curious to some extent I don't think I think that's right ... it's fascinating to me though that the Republicans are so far avoided ... threatening a filibuster right which would require that the sixty vote hurdle to get over ... it and ... that's in contrast to what the Democrats didn't two thousand five with John Bolton one job when George W Bush nominated him to the investor due to the US ... Joe Biden ... Barack Obama ... a and ... Telefónica Chris Dodd and John Kerry ... all ... contributed to a filibuster that denied Bolton vote he would of been confirmed with about fifty seven fifty eight folks if they've gone before ... but the breeze the sixty vote threshold in Iowa vote ... so he had to be appointed in a recess appointment to be able to go to the US ... the Republicans so far going and I have Senator Graham sings to hold ... on him which is the right of senators do they often do that ... Democrats didn't ... extensively at the under cabinet level during the Bush he's the tall friend Paul therefor that the White House's demand ... denigrate them say these aam cooperated Republicans look there they don't I don't think they are afraid that I think I think what the art is ... consistent ... I don't think they think that I think they think that the president sch nominee should get an up or down so ... and that they shouldn't be denied based on the filibuster pick at the camera of all I really do believe a guy like John McCain thinks that I agree with that ... I don't like the idea of course we criticize him when Democrats practice of wheat criticize the one Republicans of practice I think the presidential nominees to deserve all ... that doesn't meet ... the Democrat you go in lockstep an awful night ... if they have such profound doubts about Hazel is I think they do no content or a prisoner Paul GBO thank you so much for being with us